“Robots will never know the arc of a human life, will never know death, will never fear death, will never know life, will never know what it is to have a child, will never know what it is to fear the loss of a child, will never know what it is to know life. Why would they be somebody I would want to talk about my child?”

“I once did a study that I loved, which was asking people, “Would you take a chip, an implant, that would give you calculus?” Just a calculus implant and most people think, “Yeah,” they would take calculus by an implant. Then it was, “Would you take a chip that would give you the works of Dostoevsky?” and most people said, “No.” The Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Faulkner you had to read it, you had to be a person and experience it..“

“When you connect with a robot, you haven’t connected, because there’s nobody home to connect to. So you connect to something that’s not there to really forge a relationship with, so you don’t really have any practice in forging a mutual relationship.”

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